· Private foundation
The Sam & Nada Simon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DE LA SALLE COLLEGIATE | $39,000 |
| HOUSTON BASE PARTY FEBRUARY 2025 | $30,701 |
| PIQUETTE SQUARE FOR VETERANS | $13,504 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| WOMEN OF TOMORROW | $5,000 |
| ONE CHURCH BETHEL'S FAMILY | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,995 |
| RELENTLESS SOCCER CLUB | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,100 |
| HARBOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,700 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,195 |
| TAYLOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| GREATER FLINT HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WOWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +25%
- HCHarbor Christian Academy2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +87%
- COCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- 7I75TH INNOVATION COMMAND - ARMY RESERVEone grant, 2024 · $23k
- HNHOLY NAME CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL A CHESTERTON ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $9k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
To conduct interscholastic athletic tournaments throughout the state, consistent with educational values of high school curriculums, to provide assistance in the training of coaches, athletic directors and officials, as well as the…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Social welfare and issue advocacy
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds Harbor Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Periwinkle Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ARMED FORCES HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MACOMB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds TAYLOR FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds CHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Barton Malow Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · United Jewish Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sam & Nada Simon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sam & Nada Simon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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